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TITLE		ADDED ON		VIEWS		FANS

like lit-up matchsticks		Jul 31st (2008)		268		78

who gave birth to these people		Sep 3rd (2009)		182		35

a bathroom mirror in a crowd of flirts		Jan 28th (2009)		224		47

a bipartisan senate is a centaur		Feb 11th (2009)		227		68

a black hole		Apr 14th (2008)		325		97

a black kid hit me in the head today		Dec 5th (2006)		527		105

a bloody foot, shin, and knee		Oct 30th (2008)		234		56

a brainless woman or a toothache		Dec 25th (2007)		402		109

a car wash for the devout		Sep 11th (2009)		149		37

a caricature of a nightmare		Jan 11th (2009)		295		105

a cart full of veggies		Nov 5th (2008)		230		58

a cat's paw in a fish tank of intentions		Jul 8th (2010)		98		19

a chain can't stop a lonesome dog		Jun 22nd (2010)		81		19

a chance for the cannon		Nov 16th (2009)		139		32

a cockroach dives into my beer		Dec 23rd (2006)		496		112

a crowd of voices that wouldn't shut up		Jul 21st (2009)		171		35

a dead husband's favorite sweater		Aug 22nd (2008)		225		75

a debate is here to be had		Dec 20th (2008)		190		44

a deflationary outlook is not good for therapy		Jan 4th (2009)		206		48

a display of pride and hurt		Aug 27th (2008)		233		61

a dog barks at the object it fears		Sep 1st (2008)		214		62

a dramatic orchestration with the world's smallest violin		Oct 14th (2008)		277		79

a drifter hiding from rain in a 50's telephone booth		Jan 29th (2009)		223		56

a few folks will laugh		Sep 29th (2009)		156		34

a fish market shopping spree		Jan 16th (2009)		240		65

a foreign gym		Sep 7th (2008)		248		71

a future in a high school english paper		Jan 3rd (2009)		230		61

a garden of mold		Dec 2nd (2009)		178		47

a girl i've never seen		Aug 28th (2008)		219		61

a girl that needs a man		Apr 20th (2010)		103		28

a gutter ball can enslave a man		Dec 13th (2008)		249		62

a hard thing to do		Dec 15th (2009)		184		50

a hobo doesn't give up on a dog		May 28th (2010)		78		23

a hobo loudly discovers phlegm		Jan 19th (2010)		163		53

a kidney stone ought to regret a piss		Aug 17th (2010)		37		7

a little rest		Feb 1st (2006)		542		109

a little show of human nature		Aug 20th (2009)		176		43

a little tongue for good measure		Aug 4th (2010)		46		10

a low chuckle from the sky		Nov 4th (2007)		401		105

a name and number		Mar 25th (2008)		345		97

a noteworthy exception		Apr 2nd (2009)		204		59

a panel of experts		Sep 27th (2008)		236		64

a pawn's life is a self-managed trick		Jun 17th (2008)		273		80

a personal suggestion		Jan 17th (2008)		382		104

a piss-stream of stale mornings		Oct 5th (2008)		291		74

a place to piss and love a woman		Nov 3rd (2007)		709		150

a plentiful selection of alternatives		Mar 31st (2009)		201		51

a priest at a zoo giving the monkeys a second look		Aug 29th (2008)		227		60

a proper reason to breath		Sep 12th (2009)		173		39

a puddle that brings out poseidon's rage		Aug 26th (2008)		233		66

a quarter of a century		Aug 14th (2008)		210		52

a reader in canada		Feb 24th (2009)		229		59

a river's tongue		May 3rd (2010)		99		26

a satisfactory level of comprehension		Oct 16th (2009)		177		45

a senile ferret in my pants		Jul 23rd (2009)		185		48

a sexist poem		Apr 22nd (2009)		228		54

a shirt full of sweat		Dec 23rd (2008)		209		52

a sign of spiritual decline		Jun 3rd (2009)		197		51

a simple longing for ephemeral gratification		Feb 26th (2009)		231		66

a small fish amongst large bait		Jan 19th (2009)		213		59

a small shirt is not made for fatness		Jul 13th (2008)		255		70

a spear in a lion		Apr 21st (2010)		97		26

a stoli shot makes a man strong and hungry		Nov 15th (2007)		412		115

a strawberry dipped in nutella		Jun 24th (2009)		203		55

a struggle great men choose		May 1st (2008)		341		94

a struggling tourist attraction		Feb 16th (2009)		244		57

a stubborn dysfunction		May 13th (2008)		321		93

a throbbing reminder every time i spill ink		Nov 17th (2008)		228		65

a tight flask		Dec 14th (2007)		374		104

a torture memo		Apr 21st (2009)		205		58

a venomous puncture		Jan 10th (2009)		230		57

a vision of grace		Apr 21st (2008)		315		82

a wet paper towel in a used woman's stall		Nov 1st (2007)		444		120

a wholly untapped market		Aug 2nd (2010)		45		9

a wise old cactus in times of drought		Apr 28th (2009)		195		51

a woman gone astray		Mar 9th (2008)		380		108

a young man is god		Jan 12th (2010)		150		40

accomplishments		Oct 14th (2007)		395		108

african		Aug 25th (2005)		615		105

alchemy		Feb 29th (2008)		360		101

alive		Aug 1st (2005)		730		118

all the blood is just crushed grapes		Aug 9th (2008)		238		61

all the things you'll never get to know		Feb 28th (2009)		208		56

amidst the honesty, there's truth		Jan 28th (2010)		152		42

an abandoned zoo		Nov 23rd (2008)		210		51

an adjacent sheep		May 30th (2008)		279		88

an aging shoplifter at a meat market		Mar 29th (2010)		111		24

an american conviction		Mar 27th (2008)		331		97

an email from someone long gone		Mar 24th (2008)		332		100

an embrace with a plugged-in toaster in a boiling bubble bath		Oct 29th (2008)		225		61

an ever-shrinking ship		Dec 29th (2009)		162		45

an impossibly tragic vision		Jun 9th (2008)		294		83

an old couple trying to dance		Jun 26th (2009)		188		43

an uneventful meal for some thing to chew		Jun 18th (2008)		288		96

and i listen to the chickens		Nov 26th (2005)		581		126

anger is a flickering light		Dec 17th (2008)		201		50

another destined moment from a coffee-stained book of dreams		Jan 18th (2009)		256		61

anxious little devils		Sep 11th (2009)		141		33

apology		Mar 11th (2008)		363		106

around a fire		Jan 28th (2007)		566		103

as obese bearded men lurk		Dec 19th (2009)		162		51

as the old bastard grinned		Nov 14th (2009)		158		30

as the water fills the boat		May 31st (2008)		290		86

as wallets collapse		Sep 15th (2009)		193		40

assumptions are none		Sep 18th (2008)		252		66

at forty dollars a bottle		Oct 23rd (2009)		167		38

balancing barely on bleeding cracked feet		Jul 16th (2008)		245		72

bank teller		Feb 24th (2008)		387		113

be polite around demons		Aug 16th (2010)		38		16

beady irish eyes		Apr 20th (2008)		325		95

because a half-naked chubby chick might be impressed		Jun 21st (2009)		236		46

because i have no need for women		Dec 15th (2008)		222		48

because it's christmas and i'm alone		Dec 22nd (2008)		214		49

because she is motherly and caring		Nov 17th (2009)		146		37

because the moment is always watching		Jun 30th (2009)		173		40

before a good night's sleep can do its healing		Jun 28th (2010)		79		19

before i fell off the stairs		Sep 3rd (2006)		502		104

before i had to create a look		Aug 3rd (2005)		575		105

before nature updates its log		Sep 10th (2008)		228		69

before the whisky kills me		Dec 17th (2007)		441		126

bend down to sip the puddle water		Jul 9th (2008)		278		81

bent shoulders on a bug-infested couch		Nov 19th (2008)		233		74

bent umbrella		Mar 23rd (2008)		337		87

between an empty bar and a welcoming ditch		Mar 5th (2010)		136		30

bidding with whiskey breath on old city wares		Oct 10th (2008)		263		65

bills and tokens for the trip		Aug 1st (2009)		157		39

bin laden		Apr 2nd (2008)		323		94

bipolar nymphomaniacs		Jan 9th (2009)		250		54

bleed bleed bleed		Aug 6th (2005)		578		96

bold words trail behind		Oct 29th (2009)		170		45

breaking promises and plans		Jan 2nd (2010)		177		51

brilliant prose turned to vacuous vomit		Dec 10th (2008)		203		58

brilliant theories		May 6th (2008)		295		79

bruises or marriage		Jan 1st (2009)		230		74

bruises, cuts, and aching joints		Dec 2nd (2008)		225		55

bullets taste like bullets		Jan 30th (2006)		544		107

but i have emails left to send		Jul 28th (2009)		167		44

but it's true		Nov 21st (2009)		185		54

but the writers never change		Jan 9th (2010)		126		32

can you and i sit down without fighting		Nov 21st (2006)		510		113

celebrating the end		Apr 24th (2008)		334		94

cellophane wrap		Mar 23rd (2008)		352		100

change shyly the ordering of even your alphabet		Jun 1st (2008)		288		92

checkers		Nov 6th (2007)		386		98

cheese tray		Sep 6th (2008)		218		62

civil freedoms		Jun 2nd (2008)		326		98

cleaning the bathroom naked in a winter coat		Dec 26th (2008)		331		73

clumped like the hair under the sink		Jun 26th (2008)		263		80

coffee and sex		Dec 25th (2008)		244		81

coffee don't make for better men		Apr 28th (2010)		109		28

conan o'brien		Aug 5th (2009)		166		41

contradiction is a privilege		Jun 1st (2008)		309		101

counting bugs on an office ceiling		Apr 19th (2008)		295		93

couple hours will do		Feb 20th (2010)		141		38

cracked blues eyes from a skull-shaped pot		Mar 10th (2010)		126		28

critique of objectivism		Mar 4th (2008)		326		103

crusaders with oil rigs		Apr 3rd (2008)		307		91

cut up and salted		Feb 23rd (2008)		398		110

damn overpriced war		Dec 20th (2008)		192		49

day-old band-aids on a bite-marked heart		May 29th (2009)		173		44

dead in new york		Sep 8th (2010)		8		2

dear editor		Mar 12th (2008)		363		102

death and sex		Aug 18th (2005)		660		121

death is a once in a lifetime pain		Aug 20th (2007)		409		113

death is beyond metaphor		Jul 25th (2008)		235		66

death must be part-french		May 4th (2008)		322		89

define the way your wine glass shatters		Sep 11th (2008)		270		69

dentist appointment		Feb 23rd (2009)		247		68

despite all these poems		Oct 7th (2009)		169		43

despite the grandest of schemes		Jun 25th (2009)		174		39

disinterested parties		Jan 24th (2009)		232		63

disinterested people		Dec 22nd (2009)		156		42

distrust		Nov 10th (2007)		391		101

do not protest on a full stomach		Jan 28th (2006)		543		107

do not worry about me		Jan 31st (2006)		591		114

do untie me when you've lost the will to stare		Jul 17th (2008)		271		86

does your boyfriend know my name		Aug 28th (2010)		24		5

dog from hell		Nov 26th (2008)		220		57

don't bet your life against your nature		Jul 28th (2008)		239		62

don't bother running		Oct 10th (2009)		164		41

don't call me when i'm drinking		Sep 15th (2005)		582		95

don't give a rat a slice of cheese		May 4th (2010)		109		28

don't help the less fortunate		Aug 31st (2005)		592		109

don't read into what i'm writing		Nov 25th (2008)		215		58

don't try to reason with a woman		Sep 24th (2009)		159		35

don't turn your back on a man's modesty		Nov 24th (2008)		217		47

dreams full of rain		Apr 5th (2010)		115		30

drink water and expect juice		Dec 18th (2008)		215		47

drinking heavy at a museum on a lonely april night		Apr 26th (2006)		593		108

drown the day in emacs buffers		Aug 17th (2009)		154		36

drowning without you		Dec 22nd (2009)		163		56

each minute is a fresh beginning		Apr 6th (2009)		204		48

eat spaghetti with your enemies		Feb 20th (2008)		357		98

elevator romance		Mar 10th (2009)		244		58

empty seat		Aug 27th (2009)		182		44

encouraging smiles on wet bathroom tiles		Jul 21st (2008)		252		82

end with a verb and a pronoun		Feb 9th (2009)		223		59

energy drink		Mar 31st (2008)		354		109

enough canadian whiskey to kill a canadian moose		Mar 6th (2009)		246		95

escape is in the knowledge of how to divide life in half		Oct 1st (2008)		244		63

even rudeness begs for a chance		Sep 6th (2008)		217		64

every size and type of ball		May 18th (2010)		97		24

exponentiate		Mar 20th (2008)		355		99

eying teens from the porch of my golden years		Nov 30th (2008)		210		54

farm animals at a slaughter		Jul 29th (2010)		49		10

favored things		Jan 28th (2008)		349		101

fedex delivery man		Apr 12th (2008)		326		93

fingers barely suffice		Aug 8th (2008)		225		70

fire		Aug 26th (2005)		648		110

firewood		Dec 5th (2007)		378		107

fission lost its thrill		Jun 21st (2008)		279		85

flashes of genius		Jul 8th (2009)		170		38

flying with torches		Apr 28th (2008)		317		91

folding fingers		Nov 20th (2008)		241		64

folks give me more respect than i deserve		Nov 30th (2008)		212		54

for a friend i've forgotten		Nov 27th (2009)		158		41

for the duration of the minute		Aug 21st (2008)		231		61

forgetting to add whip cream to a caramel drink		Aug 27th (2009)		179		50

forgiveness		Mar 26th (2008)		356		99

fork and knife		Apr 29th (2008)		329		95

found garbage in the garbage can		Apr 24th (2009)		201		50

frat hyenas		Mar 14th (2008)		340		104

free of change		Oct 28th (2009)		157		44

from all the errors of my doing		May 21st (2008)		284		70

from the coffee to the chair		Aug 22nd (2008)		219		61

from the comfort of my chair		Dec 13th (2009)		159		52

functional relations		Dec 29th (2008)		220		57

garden		Nov 25th (2007)		361		109

gave up stretching		Nov 4th (2009)		160		38

giggling french girls		Aug 21st (2009)		148		34

give me a chainsaw and a cheating woman		Feb 17th (2008)		404		119

god damn i love life		Jan 17th (2008)		388		111

god damn woman		Feb 29th (2008)		387		99

god has never been known for resting		Jul 31st (2010)		52		10

god knows we failed		May 23rd (2008)		300		89

god made the woman as a trick		Nov 21st (2007)		391		97

goodbye epilogue		Aug 13th (2010)		36		9

goodness as an axiom		Sep 12th (2008)		214		63

got into a rental with a couple navy vets		Jun 2nd (2009)		191		46

greasy republicans		May 29th (2008)		310		86

grizzly bears are the reason		Jun 24th (2008)		293		92

gummy o's		Nov 2nd (2007)		391		96

half-eaten apple		Sep 30th (2009)		191		53

happy birthday		Apr 18th (2009)		203		49

happy flames		Nov 28th (2009)		184		47

harry potter		Aug 27th (2009)		152		34

harry reid		Jan 7th (2009)		220		54

he owed me money		Feb 25th (2008)		364		104

head-splitting roars of active machinery		Jan 13th (2009)		207		53

heavenly meeting of fate and chance		May 12th (2009)		173		50

helpless		May 20th (2009)		196		49

her absence		Jul 25th (2009)		189		46

history of urine		Aug 1st (2005)		653		115

hitting keyboards with my head		Jun 6th (2008)		290		78

hold me like i'm the last beer at this party		Jan 3rd (2008)		381		103

holding on		Apr 11th (2008)		341		92

holding on in plastic chairs against all reasonable odds		Nov 8th (2008)		206		63

honey		Dec 26th (2006)		637		96

hope		Apr 6th (2008)		349		101

hope is the bugs under my eyelids		Jun 27th (2008)		264		77

hotel's a monster with a bow		Jun 12th (2008)		301		93

hungry wolves around the meat		Jan 25th (2010)		168		59

hyenas		Dec 10th (2006)		523		95

i am a monster		Aug 1st (2005)		588		103

i am declaring a war on weakness		Apr 1st (2008)		343		108

i at once must retire		Oct 10th (2009)		157		37

i can drain a bottle on heater-less nights		Dec 3rd (2008)		194		47

i can only be bold		Apr 12th (2009)		201		55

i don't eat calories		Dec 27th (2007)		357		102

i don't mind hate, i just avoid it		Oct 10th (2005)		526		90

i feed her grocery store fish and rodents		Mar 3rd (2008)		347		99

i got six dogs		Jun 15th (2006)		510		114

i guess you too had debts to pay		Oct 22nd (2009)		158		37

i had a wife		Aug 6th (2005)		587		103

i keep my woman chained to the radiator		Nov 21st (2007)		568		137

i learned this with my pants in hand		Jun 16th (2010)		78		20

i like it when it's made of chocolate		Feb 11th (2008)		370		104

i love women that can talk		May 8th (2009)		197		48

i met a bastard on the road to life		Dec 27th (2006)		591		101

i met a bottle		Aug 23rd (2005)		557		102

i misunderstood death		Feb 27th (2006)		563		128

i need the way you laugh at me		Sep 12th (2009)		156		34

i never did become a doctor		Jan 22nd (2008)		339		96

i romanticize chairs		Aug 27th (2009)		182		49

i share secrets with my advisor		Dec 25th (2008)		210		48

i stood before a line of them		Dec 9th (2007)		374		101

i suffer an incredible attraction		Sep 29th (2005)		583		109

i told the woman		Jan 29th (2006)		532		101

i used to have a dog		Dec 17th (2007)		358		90

i watch a monkey on the plasma		Dec 16th (2006)		1084		131

i will not murder you		Aug 1st (2005)		625		111

i'd like to be the one to kill it		Nov 27th (2009)		168		44

i'll fight any intellectual at this party		Jan 13th (2008)		364		109

i'll fight for		Mar 7th (2008)		345		102

i'm almost there each time i stop		Aug 29th (2008)		219		64

i'm angry		Feb 8th (2007)		481		104

i'm challenging you to be my friend		Oct 31st (2007)		412		110

i'm glad you make more money than me		Jul 7th (2009)		171		42

i've been away, poem		Feb 15th (2009)		245		59

i've been deemed inappropriate for kids		Jun 7th (2008)		279		88

i've seen worse		Mar 3rd (2008)		364		117

if god ever will forgive us		Nov 6th (2008)		244		60

if i fight for it		Jun 19th (2009)		174		45

if i give you a bone		Jan 29th (2008)		373		93

if i was broke, ugly, and a cripple		Nov 28th (2006)		505		120

if some hole is bleeding		Nov 6th (2009)		149		43

if you have never tasted urinal cake		Sep 1st (2006)		457		97

if you want to ever see your umbrella again		Jun 15th (2009)		205		58

imagine what you could've been		Aug 20th (2010)		42		11

immortal through recursive rebirth		Aug 4th (2008)		217		66

immune to changes in the weather		Sep 1st (2008)		226		68

in a grappling match with a diner waitress's tone		Oct 17th (2008)		235		57

in a place where german ladies sing along		Mar 11th (2009)		233		64

in a towel with a comb		Jun 11th (2008)		290		85

in a town of poison and overcooked dreams		Jul 20th (2009)		166		44

in celebration of female fortitude		Feb 10th (2010)		139		29

in front of your quickly-redenning face		Jul 6th (2008)		310		84

in search of glory		Jul 1st (2010)		111		32

in short		Aug 1st (2005)		624		109

in such difficult times		May 8th (2009)		181		43

in the kitchen sink of my eastern european youth		May 28th (2009)		177		42

in the shadow of the couch		Jul 30th (2009)		173		37

in the sterile hum of post-incident brain		Mar 21st (2007)		434		100

inclinations of inner beasts		Mar 2nd (2009)		237		60

it is no secret that i am broken		Sep 20th (2005)		575		101

it rarely pays to be kind		May 13th (2010)		104		25

it turn's out you're human too		Apr 21st (2010)		101		28

it turns out the gods are mostly women		Jun 18th (2010)		76		19

it's a good thing that winning is hard		Sep 15th (2009)		142		36

jaws on a man excite you		Nov 28th (2007)		378		109

jenna		Oct 27th (2005)		624		110

jews were dying left and right		Jul 12th (2008)		269		85

just got done being young and stupid		May 14th (2009)		205		60

keep one eye open with a razor		May 20th (2008)		302		83

keep one foot ahead		Dec 21st (2008)		216		54

kgb		Aug 1st (2005)		643		122

kittens meowing		Nov 10th (2008)		246		62

knee-deep		May 8th (2008)		319		98

krav maga		Dec 1st (2008)		217		59

learning proper ways of speaking		Nov 14th (2009)		166		40

learning to smile		Oct 11th (2008)		263		67

leave the back door open		Sep 9th (2008)		254		68

let the demons rejoice		Apr 23rd (2009)		195		45

let the devil make his bet		Mar 31st (2010)		140		33

let the silence decide who's wrong		Jun 19th (2008)		311		89

let's stop pretending		Oct 15th (2005)		570		98

life's too short for cacti		Sep 11th (2008)		210		63

like anxious rabbits		Jan 12th (2010)		129		39

liquored up fedya		Sep 11th (2005)		555		117

little troubles in a cup		Aug 17th (2009)		148		34

living in a bubble bath		Sep 30th (2008)		246		68

lollypop		Mar 1st (2008)		416		112

long walks in the trenches		Aug 22nd (2005)		552		104

looking through the yellow blinds		Dec 17th (2009)		202		63

lost a bike, found a girl		Jun 30th (2009)		180		48

love is simple		Jan 23rd (2010)		143		39

love is working double shifts on sub-par pay		Oct 3rd (2008)		244		60

loving a conservative		Sep 15th (2005)		576		115

madness is a tea bag		Apr 13th (2008)		335		99

mailman		Nov 26th (2007)		393		110

manipulative facts		Aug 8th (2009)		169		40

masochistic shadows cast by the soul		Nov 25th (2008)		206		61

match box memories of unjustifiably released witches		Jun 4th (2008)		295		91

maybe she'll get a dollar		May 25th (2008)		289		80

mediocre poets too have writers block		Mar 19th (2009)		245		64

mice in rage		Nov 7th (2007)		380		102

minutes converge to an emphatic "screw it"		Jun 7th (2008)		307		87

misshaved russians		Feb 18th (2008)		386		116

momma, i'm a musician		Mar 12th (2008)		340		91

more than five minutes		Nov 25th (2009)		177		46

morning tea		Mar 2nd (2008)		357		106

muscle tone		Sep 15th (2009)		165		41

my balls are made of egg shells		Feb 3rd (2006)		593		119

my character has seen concern		Aug 29th (2008)		231		63

my date with destiny		Jul 9th (2009)		172		42

my first leg went to the deadline		Jan 28th (2006)		526		100

my grave-digging shovel		Jul 23rd (2008)		242		75

my innocence is a zit on gogol's nose		Jan 31st (2008)		353		95

my nietzche's dead		Jan 2nd (2008)		365		108

my perfect exit		Dec 19th (2008)		190		46

my sweet cinnamon bun		Mar 11th (2008)		372		107

my thoughts betray my face		Aug 18th (2008)		229		57

naked girl		Dec 21st (2008)		251		53

naperville, chicago, illinois		May 22nd (2008)		275		70

neither of us is made of candy		Jan 28th (2009)		225		63

never seen something so big have you		Jan 31st (2008)		400		99

new orleans		Mar 16th (2008)		351		98

next door neighbors		Jun 9th (2009)		203		49

night owl blues		Oct 2nd (2005)		556		108

nights of red cups		Dec 30th (2009)		151		41

no boom		Jun 23rd (2008)		265		79

no desire to mingle with the devil		Jul 10th (2009)		169		47

no lips around a gun		Dec 26th (2008)		261		83

no one knows you when you're dead		Aug 11th (2010)		39		12

no one told me there'd be whole wheat bagels		Sep 23rd (2009)		171		39

no puppy follows		Dec 28th (2008)		208		49

no way around growing old		Dec 26th (2009)		127		31

no-good grandson		Feb 15th (2009)		239		62

nobody here is special		Oct 11th (2009)		174		45

not jumping enough		May 11th (2010)		104		24

not tonight		Jun 6th (2010)		87		22

numbing the senses with a comfortable chair		Jul 30th (2008)		251		70

obama		Jan 4th (2008)		371		96

objectivists are like mosquitoes		Aug 27th (2009)		164		44

occasional visitors		May 14th (2008)		311		95

off-duty taxis		Nov 16th (2007)		389		101

oily hands wipe greedy asses		Jul 18th (2008)		391		99

old men in plastic chairs		Apr 4th (2009)		206		53

old piano keys		Feb 8th (2008)		368		110

on a full stomach		Aug 10th (2010)		44		12

on a phantom limb		Jul 12th (2009)		176		40

on a whim		Jul 1st (2009)		193		41

on the matter of my happiness		Jun 22nd (2009)		177		44

once silenced, she begins		Jan 15th (2010)		154		41

one and a half letters		Jun 23rd (2009)		188		44

one eye open, one eye closed		Nov 22nd (2008)		260		59

one kingdom		Sep 5th (2008)		260		78

one more goodbye		Feb 15th (2010)		162		45

one more joke and i've had it		Aug 14th (2007)		419		122

one of them		Mar 28th (2008)		354		100

one of those people		Jan 7th (2009)		230		68

one or two unhappy faces		Apr 7th (2008)		370		97

one thousand times		Aug 1st (2005)		626		114

one toy will make a child happy		Feb 8th (2008)		379		112

open a door with a lame question		Aug 16th (2008)		214		62

open to vultures for gnawing		Jan 3rd (2009)		219		52

our friendship		Feb 27th (2008)		349		98

our inevitable doom		Dec 21st (2009)		173		41

out of reach of common man		Sep 15th (2008)		242		58

overconceptualization		Dec 27th (2008)		209		57

painful facts		Jul 10th (2009)		181		36

pancake parties		Sep 25th (2009)		165		38

pancakes were a touch overdone		Apr 10th (2010)		116		27

part with a melancholy smile		Aug 18th (2009)		171		39

peaceful, hopeful, inspiring song		Apr 15th (2008)		305		88

peanuts		Dec 1st (2009)		169		38

pennies hide from dollar bills		Mar 21st (2009)		220		63

people aren't afraid to be themselves		Aug 20th (2009)		171		35

people aren't good to each other		Jul 3rd (2009)		190		39

people die daily		Dec 30th (2006)		620		115

people that don't drink scare me		Feb 2nd (2008)		375		105

perestroika, dear brothers		May 27th (2008)		291		96

philosopher kings despite decades of school		Jul 18th (2010)		50		13

philosophy		Mar 21st (2008)		367		110

pleasant conversation		Feb 25th (2008)		355		110

poetry reading		Mar 25th (2008)		306		83

poking a cyclops in the eye		Oct 8th (2008)		238		60

policies of shoot and pray		Jun 22nd (2008)		285		89

politely nodding to the passing of youth		Dec 12th (2008)		229		59

politicians		Aug 25th (2006)		488		115

pondered the lights of the oncoming train		Nov 3rd (2008)		229		53

posing a threat		May 10th (2008)		293		92

practically rotting		May 3rd (2009)		183		41

prepare to get soaked		Aug 17th (2008)		221		62

programming is for the gods		May 9th (2008)		299		90

proud monkeys with coffee and scone		Aug 17th (2009)		153		37

proudly, wildly		Dec 28th (2007)		391		108

put my head in the stove		Feb 13th (2008)		352		90

question		Sep 1st (2006)		471		97

rags		Sep 3rd (2005)		568		111

rain waits for you to step outside		Jun 16th (2009)		178		49

rape is for the victims		May 26th (2008)		303		86

reading nietzsche into the evening		Jan 3rd (2010)		162		49

realist engineers and cynical pricks		Jan 24th (2009)		200		45

reason to be hopeful		May 12th (2008)		325		95

recovery effort		May 10th (2009)		173		47

recovery from tendinitis		Apr 11th (2009)		202		52

refill the cup		Mar 30th (2008)		336		88

renounce all previous ties		May 17th (2008)		308		92

resting under the weight of surrendering eyes		Aug 2nd (2008)		247		74

rhyme-free stew with the viscosity of cracked cement		Feb 4th (2009)		211		55

rich people		Apr 5th (2008)		345		96

routine helps quiet the revolution		Apr 23rd (2008)		303		97

running to endure		May 3rd (2008)		301		90

russia, my motherland		Feb 20th (2008)		425		101

saints are skinned dogs		Oct 11th (2005)		559		101

santa claus is a racist		Apr 17th (2008)		310		88

sarcasm is the fashion		Mar 12th (2010)		116		25

searching for a pocket in pocketless jeans		Sep 22nd (2009)		218		50

second place		Dec 8th (2008)		220		61

self-destruction		Mar 18th (2008)		352		103

senile cynicism is only one bathroom trip away		Oct 19th (2009)		171		43

sex in casually drying cement		Jun 16th (2008)		281		85

sexual history		Jul 24th (2009)		191		47

she is a flower with a gun		Aug 20th (2005)		583		104

she tattoos bukowski on her wrists		Sep 10th (2005)		642		106

shoo-in for hell		Mar 10th (2008)		374		102

short people in big red shoes		Feb 3rd (2010)		188		65

silver girl		Mar 19th (2008)		360		99

smart people can disagree		Dec 31st (2008)		242		57

so i ask you to get me a beer		Feb 7th (2010)		152		43

so much inflation		Feb 21st (2008)		331		93

soft palms		Oct 27th (2007)		412		116

soldiers		Mar 3rd (2008)		352		109

some corners are too dark for hiding		Nov 26th (2008)		201		56

some day things will get worse		Aug 29th (2005)		551		94

some more stupid crap		Oct 1st (2009)		171		42

some poems will never be written		Sep 8th (2009)		164		37

some suicides are never recorded		May 14th (2009)		281		66

sometimes it may erupt with purpose		Jul 15th (2008)		254		73

spilled a glass of milk		Nov 24th (2007)		384		104

squats		Nov 3rd (2007)		380		102

start the day with coffee		Aug 14th (2010)		35		8

statistics about children		Nov 16th (2007)		395		105

steak on a grill is so anti-evolutionary		Aug 20th (2008)		223		63

stitches like no bloody eyes haves seen		Jun 25th (2008)		257		77

stories about other men		Jan 2nd (2009)		220		59

struggling to be a better man		Nov 23rd (2008)		259		59

stuck		May 7th (2006)		545		109

suffering is a patient dog		Aug 4th (2005)		548		98

sveta		Feb 18th (2009)		241		67

sweet like a freshly cracked pinata in the first spring heat		Apr 8th (2009)		208		51